Safety pin-ticket.



M. 0. ANTHONY.

SAFETY PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED mmzs. 1915,

1,177,757. Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

W'ntnesa-fies. Inventor. f. WW Marcus O.Anthony,

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THE COLUMBIA PMNOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS 0. ANTHONY, F ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO A. KID/[BALLCOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SAFETY PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed January 28, 1915. Serial No. 4,937.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARCUS O. ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Englewood, county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, haveinvented an Improvement in Safety Pin-Tickets, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification, like characters on the drawing representing like inparts.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in safety pin tickets and the mainobject of the invention is to provide a pin ticket with a fastener ofthe safety pin type located a.d jacent to the edge of the ticket topermit the ticket to be easily attached to the merchandise upon which itis to be displayed and to facilitate its removal therefrom.

Pin-tickets as at present constructed usuallycomprise a staple aflixedtoa small piece of cardboard, presenting a pair of parallel shanks whichare inserted through the fabric to be marked, the shanks being thenseparated or crossed and bent down firmly against the under surface ofthe fabric.

In afiixing pin tickets to the fabric rapidly as is necessary in largeestablishments the operators are frequently careless in bending. downthe shanks, leaving them 7 sticking upward in such a manner that theyengage and snag the fabric, furthermore in the use of these pin ticketsthe operators frequently prick their fingers.

One of the objects of this invention there-' fore is to provide a pinticket which may be easily attached to the fabric: without danger ofinjuring the operators and which when in place will have its point soprotected as to avoid snagging the fabric.v The usual pin tickets whenaflixed to the goods lie closely against the surface thereof so that butone side of the card may bear the marks which are to be associated withthe merchandise.

Another object of the invention is to so 7 attach the ticket to thefabric that both sides of it will be available for marking purposes.This is particularly convenient for the management of a large concernsince the selling price, size, etc., may be marked upon the face of theticket and the confidential cipher marks of cost, etc., applied to thereverse side, thus making inventory of the goods easy.

Other objects of the invention will more fully appear from the followingdescription, the accompanying drawings, and will be pointed. out in theannexed claims.

The drawings illustrate some of the various embodiments of theinvention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of one'of the preferred forms of my invention,Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on lines 2-2 Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a view ofa different embodiment of the invention, Fig. 4 is a view of a diiferentform of fastener applied to a pin ticket.

In the embodiment of the invention as illustrated herein the ticket 1 isdesirably of cardboard made in the usual rectangular form, a safety pinof special construction being securedthereto at. or adjacent'to theupper edge of the ticket and desirably having. the pin portion which isto engage the fabric disposed in substantial parallelism to and slightlybeyond the upper edge of the ticket.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 the fastener passes through separated holes inthe cardboard and is bent around the; edge. of the cardboardintermediate of the points of pene-' tration, the ends of the pinarebent laterally in contact with the face of the ticket, then bentupwardly beyond the edge of the ticket, one end being formed into apenetrating member or pin adapted to lie in, parallelism to the outeredge of the ticket while'the other end is bent into the form of a U-shaped loop or guard adapted to receive and to protect the end of thepin in the manner usual in safety pins. The general construction of thisticket is such that it can be made upon the Empire pin ticket machine ofthe character illustrated in Patent No. 457 ,7 82 granted Aug. 18, 1891to Alonzo Kimball, but slight modifications of said machine be ingnecessary toprovide for the bending, of the ends of the staple after thesame is affixed to the ticket. It will be understood of course thatthese pin tickets may be made by hand but that their manual productionis so slow as to render it. practically prohibip 'tive. Another objectof the invention is to. provide a safety pin ticket which is adapt- Inthe production of the pin ticket illustratedin Fig. 1 thebodyporti'on 1. desirably is perforated adjacent to the edge thereof toprovide holes 2 to receive the shanks of a staple, the pin blank isfirst bent by the mechanism of the Empire machine into staple form, thenbent at right angles in the manner disclosed in the patent aforesaid toprovide a head or loop 3, after which the loop 3 is bent around the edgeof the card as in the usual Empire ticket. By additional mechanism theprojecting shanks of the staple are then bent laterally to formshoulders & and 5 engaging the under face of the ticket; one of theseshanks is then bent upwardly and laterally to form a pin 6 extendinglongitudinally of and substantially parallel to the upper edge of thepin ticket. The other shank of the staple is bent upwardly then backwardupon itself to form a U-shaped loop 7, the end 8 of the Wire preferablybeing bent back in such a manner as to engage the rear surface of thecardboard, thereby protecting the goods from being. snagged by thisloose end. The U- shaped loop may be bent over backwardly or forwardlyto form a guard for the end of the pin but preferably is bent'forwardlyover the front face of the card. By this construction the edge of thecard reinforces the pin and also prevents the unpinning of the tag. Bybending the loop shaped end for ward the pin portion 6 will liesubstantially in the plane of the pin ticket, thus providing a verycompact and desirable form of ticket. The pins can be easily inserted inthe fabric by the operator without danger of pricking the fingers andwhen once inserted and the endsinclosed in the U-shaped loop, the'pointis completely protected.

The rigid manner in which the pin above described is attached to theticket is adapted to maintain the pin 6 in position to be readilyinserted into the fabric and is far superior to any means in which thepin would be pivotally secured to the upper portion of the ticket. Byreason of the fact that the pin lies beyond the end of the ticket and isparallel to the edge thereof the pin ticket is practically pivotallymounted in the goods so that it can be readily turned over and thereverse side utilized for the inscription of confidential memoranda,etc.

Fig. 3 illustrates a different embodiment of the invention in which thestraight shanks of the staple are passed through separated holes 12adjacent to the edge of the ticket, the intermediate portion 13 beingpressed firmly against the face of the ticket. After passing through theticket the shanks of the stable are bent laterally to form offsetportions 14, 15 firmly pressed against the reverse side ofthe ticket,one end is thereupon bent upwardly and then laterally to form apenetrating member or pin 16 or the other end 15 is bent upwardly andthence'into the U-shaped loop or guard 17 adapted to receive and inclosethe end of the pin 16 in the manner above described.

In Fig. 4 another embodiment of the'in- V I vention is illustrated inwhich the fastener comprises a wire embedded between two cards which arefastened together by glue,

paste, or otherwise, to form the ticket; or

preferably within the fold of a card doubled I upon itself, the adjacentfaces being pasted together. In this construction the pin ticket issubstantially in the form of a rectangle, one side 20 being embeddedbetweenthe portions of cardboard and being ofiset orbent into an ogeeform 21 to prevent pivotal" U-shaped loop or guard 25 of the character iabove described to inclose andto protect the end of the pin 24, V

illustrative and not restrictive and that this invention may be embodiedin other forms within the meaning and scope of the claims heretoannexed. 7

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by. Let-- ters Patent is: i p i 1. A safety pin ticket comprisinga" card;

c 7 .00 f It is to be understood that the embodi- A ments of theinvention disclosed herein are" a fastener rigidly secured to said cardhav: 7 ing a penetrating member disposed inparallelismwith and beyondthe edge thereof andan integral guard adapted to inclose and protect thepoint of said penetrating member; 2. A safety pin ticket comprising acard; a fastener having its body portion bent and engaging the surfaceof thecard to prevent turning of the fastener with respect to said cardand having a penetrating memberdisposed in parallelism with and beyondan edge of the card and an integral guard" adapted to inclose andprotect the point'of' 1 said penetrating member. I V

3. A safety pin ticket comprising a card,

a fastener inserted through said card at' points adjacent to the edgethereof and bent around said edge intermediate of said penetratingpoints to engage both faces of the card, said fastener having anintegral pane trating member extending beyond the edge of the card'andin parallelism-with said edge and a guard member adapted to inclose andprotect the point of said penetrating member. v

4. A safety pin ticket comprising a card,

a fastener inserted therethrough at a plurality of points adjacent tothe edge thereof and having a looped portion intermediate of said pointsof penetration firmly engaging one face of said card, ofiset'portionsengaging the opposite face of said card, extensions from each of saidofiset portions, one of said extensions being disposed parallel to andbeyond the edge of said ticket to form a pene trating member and theother extension bent to form a guide adapted to inclose and protect thepoint of the penetrating member.

5. A safety pin ticket comprising a card, a fastener insertedtherethrough at a plurality of points adjacent to the edge thereof andhaving a looped portion intermediate said points of penetration, saidloop portion being bent over said edge to engage both faces of saidcard, offset portions engaging the face of the ticket having extensions,one of which is disposed parallel to and beyond the edge of the ticketto form a penetrating member and the other extension bent to form aU-shaped guard adapted to inclose and protect the point of thepenetrating member.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

MARCUS O. ANTHONY.

Witnesses:

G. ALBIN WALLIN, LEWIS A. PIERCE.

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